In news:

Two polar scientists hot on the trail of an arctic mystery have a new tool for exploration: a hovercraft , specially outfitted for week-long trips over the ice with scientific instruments and solar panels.

ITT Exelis has completed the acquisition of Applied Kilovolts Group Holdings Ltd, a provider of precision high-voltage power supplies for medical, scientific, pharmaceutical and food safety instruments .

Tadworth, UK - 7th November, 2012: Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been chosen as suppliers of warm stages to a number of laboratories in the UK for sperm assessment.

Each Wave Glider is comprised of a surfboard-like float that contains all the instrumentation needed for scientific experiments, plus the intelligence needed to keep the vessel on course or to maneuver it in a different direction.

In advance of the orbital insertion, mission managers checked out the scientific instruments aboard the orbiter, and there were reports that one of the 28 channels on the probe's high-resolution camera was returning bad data.

Thermo Scientific TruDefender FT and FirstDefender RM are field-ready chemical identification instruments that deliver precise, actionable intelligence to hazmat teams and other first responders around the world.

In science:

The Planet Finder: proposal for a 2nd generation VLT Instrument. In Scientific frontiers in research on extrasolar planets, ASP Conference Series Vol. 294, D.

Coronographic Methods for the Detection of Terrestrial Planets

In short, we need to make scientific, technical, and methodological instruments available to observe, explore, and study the emergence of new forms of social regulation, considering growing awareness at the population level and making use of it.